These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.